Mary Russell Mitford
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Standard Name: Mitford, Mary Russell
Birth Name: Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
, poet, playwright, editor, letter-writer, memoirist, and—in just one work—novelist, is best known for her sketches of rural life, especially those in the successive volumes of Our Village (whose first appeared in 1824). Her greatest success came when, under the pressure of her father's inexhaustible capacity for running up debt, she turned from the respected genres of poetry and plays to work at something more popular and remunerative.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Maria Jane Jewsbury | |
Textual Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | Johnstone's Edinburgh Magazine was heavily political in content, while Tait's was designed to have greater appeal to the general reader. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Christian Isobel Johnstone | She included her own work, along with that of Gore
, Mitford
, Howitt
, Mrs Fraser
, and Catherine Crowe
. Several editions appeared, up to an eleventh in 1862. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Education | Fanny Kemble | She studied French and Italian literatures, dancing, and acting under the evangelical influence of this Englishwoman teaching in Paris. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 17 |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | Mary Russell Mitford
was another who knew FK
well even apart from their connection through the theatre. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 119-20 |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | Later in 1830, when she acted Calista in Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, Thomas Noon Talfourd
told Mary Russell Mitfordthat, at a distance from the stage, he could almost have imagined her... |
Literary responses | Fanny Kemble | In its review the Athenæum placed Kemble in the ranks with Joanna Baillie
and Mary Russell Mitford
, though her published original contributions in this form are only three—her school-girl essay which became the play... |
Education | L. E. L. | This school was advanced for its time, and had educated women such as Mary Russell Mitford
and Lady Caroline Lamb
. Rowden was herself a writer. While there, LEL learned a great deal of French... |
Textual Features | Marghanita Laski | The book aims at literary recuperation. Here ML
blends analysis with celebration, but she recalls her marginalised writers primarily to raise questions about the present state of writing for children. She says that her subjects... |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind
against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence
the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Respectable women had always shunned Blessington on account of her past; now her present too was publicly unacceptable. Her sister Ellen, now well married, dropped her. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 80 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This work involved her in finding—and engaging in voluminous correspondence with—contributors (who often were or became her personal friends), such as Anna Maria Hall
, Felicia Hemans
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Russell Mitford
,... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 263-4 |
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